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1:25 PM ET, May 31, 2013

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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
New Rules May Rein In Prosecutors in Leak Investigations  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., under fire over investigative tactics in leak cases, has opened internal discussions over tightening rules on when prosecutors may seek phone logs and other information …
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Jade Walker / The Huffington Post:
White House Press Corps Website, Twitter Feed Appears To Have Been Hacked  —  The White House Press Corps homepage and Twitter feed appears to have been hacked early Friday.  —  Just before 2 a.m., tweets began flowing into @whpresscorps, complaining about bias in the media.
Discussion: FishbowlDC and The Wrap
Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Holder Pledges Shifts on Media  —  Attorney General Eric Holder told news editors in a private meeting Thursday that he is committed to changing Justice Department guidelines on investigations involving journalists, in the wake of recent controversies over the seizure of reporters' phone and email records.
Nick Summers / The Next Web:
News Corporation takes on LinkedIn with WSJ Profile, a social network for The Wall Street Journal  —  Following its catastrophic failure with Myspace, News Corporation is preparing to dive back into the social networking game through an expansion of The Wall Street Journal website.
Mark Decambre / New York Post:
Bloomberg CEO frustrated he can't hold top editor more accountable for spying scandal  —  Bloomberg LP CEO Dan Doctoroff has privately expressed frustration with founding Editor-in-Chief Matt Winkler's Teflon status in the fallout from the company's spying scandal.
Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
Did Apple conspire to fix ebook prices?  The DOJ takes Cupertino to court on Monday  —  In the antitrust case USA v Apple, high-ranking Apple and Amazon executives are expected to testify  —  Propelled by the public's embrace of the Kindle, Amazon was running away with the burgeoning ebook market by the end of 2009.
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Free is not the magic number: New trends in ebook pricing
Discussion: TeleRead
PressGazette:
Google now believed to be world's biggest media owner with revenue of $37.9bn  —  Google is now the world's largest media owner, according to ZenithOptimedia's Top Thirty Global Media Owners report.  —  It estimates that in 2012 Google accounted for 65 per cent of all internet searches across …
Discussion: FishbowlNY and NetNewsCheck Latest
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Time Warner CEO Sells 81% of Direct Holdings in Company  —  Jeffrey Bewkes, the chief executive officer of Time Warner Inc. (TWX), sold 81 percent of his direct holdings in the media company for $12.2 million, capitalizing on a 25 percent gain in the stock this year.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Jasper Jackson / The Media Briefing:
Smart marketing or a waste of time?  #Guardiancoffee and five more media brand extensions  —  The Guardian's Coffee shop offically launches later today but it's already creating a storm on Twitter, couldn't be much more fitting with the liberal newspaper group's brand ethos.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Austin Tice's family will return to Beirut  —  Washington Post and McClatchy freelancer Austin Tice has been missing for nearly a year, and his family plans “to return to Beirut to reach more deeply into the region on behalf of our son.”  The family website says:
Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:
Hollywood YouTube Channels Hit With Hidden Cost  —  A 2010 law requiring closed captioning on all TV programming that airs online means an unexpected outlay of big bucks: Says producer Roger Corman, “We have no choice.”  —  A version of this story first appeared in the June 7 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
Associated Press:
Ugandan police end occupation of newspaper they seized over a general's controversial letter  —  KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan police on Thursday ended their occupation of a newspaper after 10 days during which they looked for evidence against an army general accused of publicly discussing politics.
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
BBC Faces New Allegations of Sexual Abuse  —  LONDON — Since the case involving the television personality Jimmy Savile came to light in October, the British Broadcasting Corporation has received 152 new allegations of sexual abuse and harassment by 81 current and former employees, the broadcaster said Thursday.
 
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Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat:
Aereo plans additional cities soon; original programming to come
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Online video will be more popular than Facebook and Twitter by 2017
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Janko Roettgers / paidContent:
Netflix wants to spend up to 15 percent of its content cash on originals
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Jeff Zucker on Cable News Rivals: ‘CNN Gets Held to a Higher Standard’